Stable aqueous alkyd resin emulsions

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A STABLE AQUEOUS EMULSION HAVING AS ITS DISPERSE PHASE AN ALKYD RESIN WHICH IS THE REACTION PRODUCT OF A POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF TRIHYDRIC NEOPENTYL ALCOHOLS, MIXTURES OF NEOPENTYL TRIHYDRIC ALCOHOLS AND OWER ALKYLENE GLYCOLS, AND MIXTURES OF NEOPENTYL TETRAHYDRIC ALCOHOLS AND LOWER ALKYLENE GLYCOLS, WHEREIN SAID LOWER ALKYLENE GLYCOLS ARE MEMBERS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ETHYLENE GLYCOL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, AND MIXTURES THEREOF, SAID POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL CONTAINING AN AVERAGE OF 2.3 TO 3.3 HYDROXYL GROUPS PER MOLECULE, WITH A POLYBASIC ACID SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALIPHATIC DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS CONTAINING FROM 3 TO 36 CARBON ATOMS PER MOLECULE, PHTHALIC ACIDS, THE ANHYDIDES OF SAID ACIDS, AND MIXTURES THEREOF AND A MONOBASIC ACID SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALIPHATIC MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID CONTAINING FROM 4 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS PER MOLECULE, BENZOIC ACID, ALKYLBENZOIC ACIDS WHEREIN THE ALKYL GROUP CONTAINS FROM 1 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS, CHLOROBENZOIC ACIDS, SALICYLIC ACID, AND MIXTURES THEREOF, SAID POLYBASIC ACID BEING PRESENT IN THE AMOUNT OF 0.6 TO 1.2 MOLES PER MOLE OF POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL AND SAID MONOBASIC ACID IN THE AMOUNT OF 0.25 TO 1.0 MOLE PER MOLE OF POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL AND WHICH HAS AN ACID NUMBER OF LESS THAN 35.